The next day.
Good news stayed within the walls, but bad news traveled a thousand miles. By last night, Ma Xiaotao's "generous confession" had spread throughout Shrek Academy... He'd also earned himself nicknames like "pretty boy who lives off women" and "gold digger who latched onto a rich older sister." The boys in his class looked at him with even more contempt...
Doing his best to ignore the people around him and their practically lethal stares, and pretending nothing had happened, Huo Yuhao walked into the teaching building with slightly stiff steps.
What Huo Yuhao hadn't expected was to run into two people he never would have imagined seeing on the way.
One had odd pink-and-blue hair, while the other had black hair styled into what looked like dog ears. They were blocking the stairwell, staring intently at Huo Yuhao. The one with the dog-ear hairstyle especially was looking at him so fiercely, it was as if she wanted to eat him alive.
Looking at Huo Yuhao, whose handsomeness was impossible to hide even in an ordinary school uniform, Wang Dong felt an even stronger, inexplicable possessiveness well up inside her. She had to admit she was now just a tiny bit regretful.
Unlike her, he was a genuinely handsome guy. Having him in her dorm room to look at every day would be a feast for the eyes...
She really had been wrong to lose her temper and start a fight with him that day.
Huo Yuhao wore a strange expression. He could understand a girl coming to find him, but why was there a boy too?
"Um..." Wang Dong stepped forward first and brushed the hair by her ear back. Her voice sounded a little nervous. "I'm sorry, Huo Yuhao. I was wrong in the dorm that day. I shouldn't have said such... such hateful things. I'm apologizing to you."
Huo Yuhao blinked twice. "You're Dong... What was the rest of your name?"
He swore on his life that he'd been so focused on Electrolux telling him to stay away from her, and so angry at the time, that he'd genuinely forgotten what this cross-dressing weirdo was called...
Wang Dong's face stiffened. Wait, he hadn't even remembered her name?!
"You... I, I'm Wang Dong. Let's properly introduce ourselves. I'm a student in Freshman Class One." Then she held out her hand in a friendly gesture, just as Huo Yuhao had done when they first met.
A mocking curve appeared on Huo Yuhao's lips, and he silently shifted half a step to the right.
Sorry, men and women shouldn't touch.
"So, Wang Dong, did you come looking for me for some reason?"
Wang Dong lowered her hand with some regret. Right, why had she come looking for him?
To get his forgiveness and move back into the same dorm room with him?
But Blue Xuanyu was pretty much her type, too... Why were the Shrek dorm rooms doubles instead of triples? Then the three of them could live together!
To make friends with him? That was such a clumsy excuse...
"Ah, um, right! Huo Yuhao, would you be interested in joining our sect?"
"?"
Huo Yuhao hadn't expected Wang Dong to suddenly turn the conversation in that direction.
"Sorry, Wang... Dong. I'm not interested in joining any sect for now." He started to walk away. "If there's nothing else, I'll head back to class."
Blue Xuanyu, who'd been watching coldly from the sidelines, hesitated for a moment. Then he walked right past Wang Dong and blocked Huo Yuhao, staring straight at his face.
There was something off about that face, too!
Huo Yuhao was certainly handsome, but the Dai and Huo families' genes ultimately couldn't compare to the divine heritage of the Tang Family. So purely in terms of looks, Huo Yuhao couldn't match Tang Wulin—or his own face in his previous life.
But Huo Yuhao's face now... was even more impressive than his own had been in his previous life!
What was going on? He had to get to the bottom of this today!
"Hello, Huo Yuhao. My name is... Blue Xuanyu."
He'd always suspected that his uncle Huo Yuhao—the one who had escaped before the Great God Circle and Dragon God Realm were destroyed—was a reincarnator, just like him. But after watching Huo Yuhao just now, he'd realized that this Huo Yuhao's behavior was completely different from the one he knew. It left him deeply confused.
Especially his attitude toward Aunt Tang Wutong... Wang Dong.
Back when Blue Xuanyu and his family were alive, Huo Yuhao and Tang Wutong had been estranged as a married couple, but they'd at least managed to keep up appearances. Now, Huo Yuhao seemed not to know Wang Dong at all.
What was going on?
After thinking it over, he decided that instead of standing around suspiciously guessing, he might as well get straight to the point and ask.
Though Blue Xuanyu no longer had the Dragon God Bloodline, he still practiced the divine cultivation method passed down by his grandfather, the Mysterious Heaven Skill, every day. He especially practiced the Purple Demon Eye, never slacking off for a moment.
His progress was still slow, but after accumulating his efforts day by day, he'd made considerable gains and was nearly at the Spirit Sea Realm.
If there was even the slightest unnatural fluctuation in Huo Yuhao's gaze or mental power, he'd spot it immediately.
If Huo Yuhao really was a reincarnator, Blue Xuanyu would have a reason to follow him. He might even be able to contact his grandfather in the Divine Realm and get help from him—ideally, by obtaining the Golden Dragon King's bloodline directly.
Blue Xuanyu had already thought it through. He didn't need the Golden Dragon King's core, just a few drops of his blood essence. He could use that as leverage to go to the Star Dou Great Forest and find his mother, which would make the road ahead a little easier.
He might end up taking in a dad younger than himself, but for the sake of the Tang Family's future, he'd just have to put up with that.
"...?"
Huo Yuhao's face froze.
Blue Salted Fish? Seriously, what kind of parents named their kid that?
It wasn't really Huo Yuhao's fault. Reborn, Blue Xuanyu had been born in the Dou Ling Empire, where people's accents were somewhat different from those in the Star Luo Empire. On top of that, Blue Xuanyu tended to mumble a little, so Huo Yuhao heard "Blue Xuanyu" as "Blue Salted Fish."
After hesitating for a moment, Huo Yuhao said with a strange expression, "Hello, Blue... Blue Salted Fish. What can I do for you?"
Huo Yuhao couldn't make out what Blue Xuanyu was saying, but Blue Xuanyu could hear him just fine!
He immediately stressed every syllable. "My name is Blue Xuanyu, not Blue Salted Fish!"
Huo Yuhao's expression grew even stranger. "Blue Salted Fish?"
"It's Blue Xuanyu! Not Blue Salted Fish!"
Like a foreigner arguing with a local because of their accents, Huo Yuhao and Blue Xuanyu got into a heated back-and-forth over "Blue Salted Fish."
Huo Yuhao's mouth twitched helplessly. "So, Blue Salted Fish, what exactly do you want?"
Blue Xuanyu was about to go mad. He snapped, "Not Blue Salted Fish! Blue Xuanyu! Blue Xuanyu!"
"Okay, okay. What do you want from me?"
Blue Xuanyu asked with a complicated expression, "Do... you really not know me?"
Who the hell are you?
Huo Yuhao was completely exasperated. One was a cross-dressing princess with a persecution complex, and the other was some creep who'd come over to ask if he knew him. Why was Shrek Academy full of weirdos? Annoyed, he retorted, "Am I supposed to know you?"
Blue Xuanyu looked astonished. "You really don't know me?"
Huo Yuhao impatiently shoved him aside. "I told you, I don't know you! Please don't block my way. I still have class to get to."
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